How to Navigate Programmatic Ad Buying

Thanks to the inundation of smartphones, tablets and laptops, coupled with the emergence of personal and professional social networks, sharing platforms and the resilience of email, consumers are sharing their interests, preferences and opinions more than ever before. But the Web has always been social. And by this, I mean the way in which online content is produced, consumed and distributed across the digital landscape.
This can mean anything from shortened links, using tools on pages to share information, sharing directly from a webpage to a social media platform (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.) and even sending a good old-fashioned email with a link in it. The prominence of online communications is the strongest it's ever been in the digital age.

This surge in online consumption has created an unprecedented opportunity for marketers to take advantage of the vast amount of data out there to help target consumers and find new customers in a precise and relevant way, at scale. Simply put, there are billions of sharing data points in all forms happening across all digital touchpoints in real-time.

Technology, through sophisticated algorithms, has made it increasingly possible to find valuable characteristics, gauge consumer behaviors and target messages with laser focus to the right audiences. Programmatic brings a previously unavailable automated intelligence to brands, enabling them to quickly reach potential audiences with relevant content in an extremely timely fashion.